meagreness

Other forms of meagreness

plural

meagrenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meagreness

What does meagreness mean?

meagreness means "the quality of being meager".

How many syllables are in meagreness?

meagreness has 4 syllables: me-a-gre-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for meagreness?

Close synonyms include meagerness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meagreness a common word?

meagreness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.